London: John Murray, 1843. xvii, 298, 16 p. 4to. First edition. 13 tinted lithographs, incl. frontis, illustrated title page, and 3 coloured plates of fish and flies. Vignettes in text. Ribbed green cloth with gilt device on front and back cover. Medium fading to spine, minor tear in cloth of head and heel. Remains a striking copy.
Next to Walton himself, there's no more engagingly discursive and allusive angling writer in the language. For the feel of fishing, the sense of it, I almost said the taste of it, I know of no other to place beside him. - Gingrich, The Fishing In Print.